Example sentences of "[subord] [noun] [vb past] [pers pn] at the " in BNC.
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1 | Once Keith left it at the home of some guy he 'd had a one night stand with , and when he went back to get it he was so embarrassed he had sex with the guy again , which was a mistake for both of them . |
2 | They were part of Japan until Russia occupied them at the end of the second world war , and the Japanese feel they are justified in wanting them back . |
3 | Until Charlie paid her at the end of the week , Lucy would again be in her usual flat-broke condition . |
4 | Reporters waited outside her apartment day and night , while photographers badgered her at the Young England kindergarten where she worked . |
5 | The bleeding persisted and Jean was very weak when Jim left her at the maternity ward . |
6 | She thinks the microwave ‘ has changed our perceptions of time , much as telephones changed them at the turn of the century ’ . |
7 | Furthermore , as Martov put it at the 1903 congress , all members of the party should be concerned with the disabilities of minorities , not just the minority itself . |
8 | He seems to have been retiring to his ships again when Edmund overtook him at the hill called Assandun ( probably Ashdon in north-west or Ashingdon in south-east Essex ) . |
9 | As Tomsky put it at the Fifth Congress of Trade Unions on 2 October 1922 : ‘ Without the strengthening and support of transport there can be no construction of socialism . ’ |